1983 IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships
The 1983 10k run for women. There were individual and team awards available, with the national team rankings being decided by the combined score of a team's three best athletes. Countries with fewer than three finishers were not ranked.[1]
10,000 metres world record
earlier that year, but she failed to finish.
The competition proved a development in global level competitions for women in long-distance running: the launch of this race was a push by the IAAF to the International Olympic Committee to gain Olympic recognition of this distance for women.[3] A women's race was subsequently added for the 10,000 metres at the Olympics in 1988, following on from the first Olympic marathon for women in 1984.[4]
Results
Individual
Team
Rank | Team | Points |
---|---|---|
Betty Springs, Lesley Welch, Ellen Hart Peña |
14 | |
Canada , |
24 | |
Ireland , |
32 | |
4 | Great Britain , |
74 |
5 | New Zealand , |
83 |
6 | West Germany , |
85 |
7 | Italy , |
88 |
8 | Netherlands , |
132 |
9 | Poland , |
150 |
References
- ^ IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2018-02-09.
- ^ 1983 IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships. Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved 2018-02-09.
- ^ Women runners send a message to the IOC. Santa Cruz Sentinel (1983-12-05). Retrieved 2018-02-09.
- ^ Athletics Women's 10,000 metres Medalists. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2014-02-07.